Sport Unites Fund
About the Fund
Sport Unites is the Mayor of London’s community sport programme, which was launched in 2018. At the heart of the Mayor’s approach to sport in London is his belief in the power of sport to bring people together and improve their lives. This programme has five priority areas:
- helping the most inactive people be more active
- improving people’s mental health and wellbeing
- decreasing isolation/loneliness
- strengthening connections in your local area and across communities
- reducing serious youth violence.
The Sport Unites Fund is for projects that use sport and physical activity to address one or more of these priorities. Grants of up to £50,000 are available for community sport projects taking place between summer 2021 and June 2022 across two grant streams: New Ideas and Tried and Tested.
New Ideas grants are available to individuals or informal (not constituted) groups, as well as constituted organisations.
We’ll award grants of up to £10,000 for community sport projects that haven’t yet been funded (by any funder). We’re looking for projects where you have a brilliant and exciting idea to tackle one or more of our priorities and would benefit from our investment and support.
The Sport Unites Fund is now closed for applications. There are currently plans to reopen the Fund in 2022. Please keep an eye on the GLA website for further details of this.
Tried and Tested grants are available to constituted organisations only.
We’ll award grants of between £10,000 and £50,000 for community sport projects where you can show previous success. We’re looking for projects that you know will work because they’re tried and tested, and you’d like Sport Unites investment to support this same project or scale it up. We’re also open to receiving applications if you’ve tried and tested other projects and can show previous success of these and want to use this experience to try out a new project with Sport Unites investment and support.
The Sport Unites Fund is now closed for applications. There are currently plans to reopen the Fund in 2022. Please keep an eye on the GLA website for further details of this.
Additional information
We held an online information and Q&A sessions to answer your questions about this fund or the application process.
The Sport Unites Fund temporarily closed to new applications at 12pm on Tuesday 16 November 2021.
From the point at which you apply, the earliest you can expect to hear is 3 to 4 weeks, though in some cases it may take up to 10-11 weeks.
The minimum project delivery period is 6 weeks and the maximum project delivery period is 6 months.
The fund will reopen again in early 2022, on a date to be confirmed.
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